A Shared Timeline

Authors: PWR Studio

Keywords: Writing, Text, Design, Social Media, Archive, Structure

First 100 words: 24th of January 2016: -26C. Although it is an unusually cold day the doors of the building are wide open. Rows of industrial fans going full speed line the roof. This piece of land on the outskirts of Boden in Northern Sweden used to be an army airbase. In 2005 it was decommissioned and now serves as part datacenter, part refugee housing. A Bentley is parked outside of a former helicopter hangar turned Bitcoin mine. Through the doors, shelves filled with naked electronics are visible. Thousands of custom-built machines convert electricity from the nearby hydropower plant into money and heat…